Banning Private Jets and Going to a 4-Day Work Week Are Radical-and Popular

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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics. Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but healthcare, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all. Advertisement That’s the radical vision proposed by philosophy professor and Marxist scholar Kohei Saito. In 2020, as residents in Japan hunkered down during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Saito published a book that...